From: Rando Christensen <eyez@...>
Date: 2004-06-24T15:08:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Why doesn't this work? (CGI)

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 14:42:01 +0900, Patrick May wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Wednesday, June 23, 2004, at 11:28  PM, Dmitry V. Sabanin wrote:
> 
>> The problem is that variables appear in CGI#params from QUERY_STRING 
>> or from
>> POST data, but not from both at one time. You need to parse QUERY_STRING by
>> yourself and then merge that with current #params content.
> 
> I maintain an alternate CGI library, of debatable merit (in another thread).
> 
> If a CGI library merged query and post data, how should the data be 
> merged?  Should POST overwrite GET?  Should POST and GET be added 
> together, returning multiple values if both contain the same keys?

I would argue that you should have some standard way of overwriting 
(i.e. either post or query takes precedence), but also have a separate 
way to get JUST the post args or just the query args, so you'd have 
something like:

args = cgi.args()
p_args = cgi.args_post()
q_args = cgi.args_query()

That way, he who doesn't care where the data is coming from can just 
call args, but when you need a more specific way to look, you ask for 
either the query args or the post args (or more likely, grab both into 
two separate hashes)

--
Rando Christensen
eyez@illuzionz.org